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    "Refresh Schema" from Web Player

    Hello, Currently it is not possible to refresh the Schema for a data source using the web player. This would be beneficial to add as I have a lot of users who would only need the web player to view data, but the data source changes frequently so t...
    7 months ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Likely to implement

    Trailing Spaces in Group Name Creations

    Hello, When I Create a group name, there is no error message that stops me from creating a group if their is a leading or trailing space. When I create a user or name a dxp, this check is there so wanted to bring this up for future releases!
    7 months ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Add 'Deletable' attribute for Properties (column/table/document)

    Properties have the 'Editable' attribute in Spotfire that allows the creator of the property (via API) to specify if the attribute is editable or not. Editable means that the user can either edit the property value or delete the property. It would...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 1 Future Consideration

    Need ability to restrict the "Find" option available in the Spotfire 10.3 version to specific pages of a report.

    Hi, With Spotfire 10.3 version, we have got a new "find" option to perform various searches in the spotfire report UI. However this find option is currently applicable to all the pages of a spotfire report and we are looking for options to restric...
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Analytics 6 Future Consideration

    Dashboard layout should support snapping to grid or orientation lines

    when there are many widgets in a dashboard, it is really hard to keep them all arranged in a nice manner. e.g. have small widgets left and right and a bigger one in the middle - the user ends up in using a physical ruler holding to the screen to b...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / User Experience 0 Future Consideration

    Connecting Oracle Data Source using Oracle Internet Directory LDAP/LDAPS

    As per CIS-65495, this feature is not supported. This feature for LDAP works flawlessly in most cases; however, in some cases it doesn't work. Also, there is no clear directives on how to configure Oracle data source using OID on LDAPS. For a firm...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire Data Virtualization / data sources 0 Future Consideration

    Adding an "Uncheck All" (for columns) box when adding a Data Table

    Having an option to uncheck all boxes in the "Excel Import Settings" Wizard, when loading a table or file into spotfire, would save lots of time instead of having to manually uncheck all the columns you do not want included. Thank you.
    about 7 years ago in Spotfire / Data Access 0 Future Consideration

    Provide API to retrieve information link details (SQL)

    Major data lineage tools (Informatica, ERwin) support scanning all BI tools such QlikView, Tableau, SAP, Cognos, but do not support Spotfire!! the stated reason from multiple vendor is Spotfire does not provide API to retrieve information link det...
    almost 4 years ago in Spotfire / Data Management 0 Future Consideration

    Change (Empty) in axis values of cross table

    When a value for a column on the axis of a cross table is missing, "(Empty)" is displayed. This looks awful. It should be possible to display those entries as empty cells. It can be done by using something like sn([axis column], "") for strings or...
    almost 8 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Don't deprecate the export/import automation services tasks

    The "export library items" and "import library items" automation services tasks have been deprecated as the server configuration command line has been updated to include similar features. We make use of automation services tasks within scripts tha...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / Automation Services 2 Future Consideration
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